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Look up at the night sky. Every star, every galaxy, every wisp of nebula appears perfectly, eternally still. The constellations that Hipparchus cataloged over two thousand years ago remain recognizable tonight. The Universe seems frozen. It is not. Behind that apparent stillness rages a cosmos of extraordinary violence: galaxies colliding over hundreds of millions of years, stars being born and dying in thermonuclear cataclysms, space itself expanding and carrying everything apart. The Universe is not frozen. We are merely too brief to see it move.

Every scientist knows that kids ask the toughest (and best!) questions. What do asteroids smell like? Do other planets really have diamond rain? Spacepod features questions from kids and answers from scientists. Good questions help everyone learn - even the experts!